U.S. consumers received 3.1% fewer robocalls in July than in June, according to YouMail’s latest Robocall Index report. The just over 4.3 billion robocalls in July, about the same amount as the same month a year ago.
Unfortunately, the scam and telemarketing calls that people generally don’t want now represent 60% of all robocall volume, up from 58% in June. According to the YouMail report, unwanted robocalls have grown significantly since the beginning of 2024. While scams or telemarketing volumes fluctuate on a monthly basis, the combined total has risen by more than 30% over the past 18 months.
July marked the third straight month of decline, yet due to high volumes the first four months of the year, the 2025 total of 32.5 billion robocalls sits at 9.2% over the amount for the first seven months of last year.
July averaged 144 million robocalls per day — 1,666 robocalls per second — down 3.2% from June’s average of 148.8 million robocalls per day and 1,722 robocalls per second.
The report found that one of the most common types of spam robocalls — hundreds of millions of which were placed in July — are loan-related scams.
YouMail said the calls originate from thousands of different numbers, often making only a few calls from each, and claim to be a specific individual, using various versions of the same basic message, with slight differences in the monthly payment, loan amount, and call to action.
“The good news is we’ve seen three straight months of declining call volume from 2025 peaks,” YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a prepared statement. “The bad news is 2025, as a whole, is still on a pace to exceed 2024’s volumes by 9%. Robocalls have clearly not gone away.”
